Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps he should have known then, that he should have more forcefully resisted the posing of such a sharp challenge to the Soviet Union. But Vance, says one of his aides, has a tendency?both a strength and a weakness at times?to be "sometimes more like a soldier than a lawyer; he takes his orders and marches...
...favorite son Eilif (Kevin Conroy) is dragooned to the wars by a sly recruiting officer. Eilif dies. While she tries to shave the price for the release of another son (Jeffrey Hayenga), he is executed. Finally, her mute daughter Kattrin (Frances Conroy), raped as a child by a soldier, is shot down while Mother Courage is away on one of her bartering expeditions. In the end, only her spunk and the wagon have survived...
...flight to England in 1568, forced by her half brother James Stewart, Earl of Moray. Musgrave, the composer and the wife of Artistic Director Mark, also wrote the libretto. Her story crackles with emotional tension: between Mary, young, lovely and impulsive; James, who craves power; the hotheaded soldier, the Earl of Both well; and the weak courtier, Lord Darnley, her cousin who becomes her husband...
...Crimson women will get the chance to work on the weaknesses when they host the Penn Quakers, Saturday at 2 p.m. at Soldier's Field...
...madness became wearying soon enough for Namo and I. Skin accustomed to the grey skies of Cambridge burns easily, and after a few successive nights the flashing lights and thumping bass of a disco make the club-hopper feel more like a soldier in the trenches at Chateau-Thierry in 1917 than a happy vacationer in Florida in the spring of 1978. After a while, the beer started to lose its tang, the rebel yells started to sound strained, and the blond, tanned 30-year-olds lounging at beachside bars started to look like desperate characters. The mirage was fading...